Example sentences for: listener

How can you use “listener” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And George Mitchell, profiled in Milan's Corriere della Sera, was described as "a great listener," who, "first as a federal judge, and then as a senator, has spent his career trying to understand the point of view of his adversaries."

  • She has championed the music of Pauline Viardot-Garcia, herself a Rossini mezzo-soprano in the 19 th century, and led a campaign to rehabilitate Haydn's almost-mythological cantata Arianna a Naxos and his virtually unknown opera Orfeo ed Euridice . One reason she can get away with this is that she is a dazzlingly expressive singer, guiding the listener through the emotional landscape of a piece with every small push of her voice.

  • Because no other information accompanied the tape, this reviewer was forced to depend on the more than slightly helter-skelter impression it leaves on the chartless listener.

  • I do not accept that, for once the listener has become a caller he is as much a part of the script, entertainment--whatever one might call it--as the presenter and is, in effect, no longer a mere listener.

  • In the Weald, haazes , the h dropped, is still used for haws . Occasionally, the close listener in autumn may also hear the pre-1939 generation call them harves . I am sixty-five, but when I was a boy living in the North Downland area south of Sittingbourne up to Maidstone, it was common to hear children calling haws arzey-garzeys , sometimes varied to azzy-gazzies . I haven't heard this for many years and I fear when my generation has “crossed over” this description, like my generation, will be defunct.


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